{"id":200644,"date":"2025-09-04T22:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200644\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:13:18","slug":"zohran-mamdani-challenges-president-trump-to-public-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200644\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran\u00a0Mamdani challenges President Trump to\u00a0public debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani is challenging President Trump to face off in a televised debate \u2014 calling out the White House\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/04\/us-news\/trump-sets-deadline-to-thin-field-in-crowed-nyc-mayoral-race-hes-going-to-do-whatever-he-has-to-do\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for trying to get involved<\/a>\u00a0in the heated race.<\/p>\n<p>The dare came after ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Queens socialist to debate him five times \u2014 once in each borough \u2014 during a press conference Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s cut out the middle man,\u201d Mamdani told The Post. \u201cWhy should I debate Donald Trump\u2019s puppet when I could debate Donald Trump himself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37023064\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-first-day-school-new-110668105.jpg\" alt=\"Zohran Mamdani at a press conference.\" class=\"wp-image-37023064\"  \/>NYC\u2019s mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani has challenged President Donald Trump to a debate. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37023067\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/u-s-president-donald-trump-110612614_7aee84.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaking in the Oval Office.\" class=\"wp-image-37023067\"  \/>Mamdani told The Post that the debate would \u201ccut out the middle man\u201d as the president has repeatedly bashed the Queens socialist. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani, who beat Cuomo in the June Democratic primary, accused Trump of trying to meddle in the election, rehashing claims that the two men had\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/07\/us-news\/socialist-zohran-mamdani-has-blistering-response-to-andrew-cuomos-alleged-phone-call-with-trump-disqualifying\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talked over the phone<\/a>\u00a0about the mayoral race.<\/p>\n<p>Sources also said Wednesday that White House officials were mulling possible job offers in the administration for Mayor Eric Adams and GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa in an effort to get them to drop out.<\/p>\n<p>That would arguably give Cuomo, the highest-polling contender after Mamdani, a leg up to beat the far-left lawmaker in the crowded November contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Donald Trump is serious about intervening in the mayoral race, he should come to New York City and debate me directly about why he\u2019s cutting SNAP benefits for hungry New Yorkers to give tax breaks to his wealthy donors,\u201d said the DSA candidate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo, earlier Thursday, ripped Mamdani for refusing to take part in mic-fights being floated by PIX11 and CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Yorkers deserve answers. I challenge him to five debates, one in every borough where we speak about the issues in that borough,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani told voters in a video Wednesday that he would not be participating in debates outside of the two scheduled by the city\u2019s Campaign Finance Board for October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the meantime, I won\u2019t be at this televised circus,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani is challenging President Trump to face off in a televised debate \u2014 calling out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,99498,69,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-200644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-debates","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115148331896630942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}